suzerainty

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Government should grant the franchise proposals of Sir Alfred Milner on condition that Great Britain withdrew or dropped her claim to a suzerainty, agreed to arbitration, and promised never again to interfere in the internal affairs of the republic.

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  1. noun The power or domain of a suzerain.

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  • By not granting such suzerainty, the Western nations are said to have insulted and, to use Putin's own term, sought to humiliate the post-Soviet Russia.
  • He revived the obsolete claim to suzerainty, and pretended that the Scots were rebels. —  Henry VIII.
  • A fresh examination of the subject has led me to adopt provisionally the following order for the series of Tanite kings Illustration: 397.jpg TABLE OF KINGS Their actual domain barely extended as far as Siut, but their suzerainty was acknowledged by the Said as well as by all or part of Ethiopia, and the Tanite Pharaohs maintained their authority with such vigour, that they had it in their power on several occasions to expel the high priests of Amon, and to restore, at least for a time, the unity of the empire. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)
  • They kept the Mesopotamian table-land under their suzerainty, and we may affirm, without exaggeration, that their power extended northwards as far as Mount Masios, and westwards to the middle course of the Euphrates At what period the Chaldæans first crossed that river is as yet unknown. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12)
  • They still owned Ottoman suzerainty, their army was non-existent, their financial resources were precarious, the condition of their people was wretched, their means of communication were primitive, and their public affairs were in a condition bordering on anarchy. —  The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
 

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  1. from Old French suzerainete, French suzeraineté, the office or jurisdiction of a suzerain, from suzerain, suzerain: see suzerain.
 

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